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- 727 or 728: death of Hubertus, first bishop of Liège, the patron saint of hunters
- 1036: death of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
- 1213: start of the Battle of Damme, where England beat France
- 1814: birth of Eugène Charles Catalan (pictured), mathematician, stated Catalan's conjecture
- 1872: birth of Paul-Emile Janson, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1937 and 1938
- 1901: death of Victor D'Hondt, mathematician and lawyer
- 1959: birth of Frank Vanhecke, chairman of the Vlaams Belang
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